EP Review: Glass Casket – Glass Casket (Silent Pendulum Records)

Regrouped, refocused and reenergised, tech-death masters Glass Casket return with their first release in 17 years: a brand new, self-titled EP, out 9th June on Silent Pendulum Records.

From Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Glass Casket features guitarist Dustie Waring and drummer Blake Richardson, both members of legendary progressive metallers, Between the Buried and Me. Back in action now under the Glass Casket banner officially for the first time since 2006, Waring and Richardson are teamed with fellow original members Adam Cody and Sid Menon, along with newest member Wes Hauch (Alluvial, ex-The Faceless).

Featuring four tracks for listeners to sink their teeth into, Glass Casket are back and playing it safe here. Reintroducing themselves with a hefty, destructive, and emphatic display of darkened technical death metal. Deliciously decadent when it comes to crunchy riffs, furious speed, scathing intensity, and technical ingenuity.

After a methodical and focused start with Merrymaker, Let Them Go really shows what Glass Casket are made of. A more concentrated beast, the powerful chorus is as close to an anthem as you’re going to get with music this heavy. Then there is Prison of Empathy, a frenzy of blood-curdling vocals and head-banging riffs, and For the Living, a track that is almost double in length to the next nearest effort.

It also happens to be the most complex, most egregiously heavy, most structurally interesting, and expressive of the bunch. As though Glass Casket wanted to leave listeners with an idea of what the future may hold. Which, based off the entirety of this EP, is something to be very excited about.

Glass Casket – Glass Casket Track Listing:

1. Merrymaker
2. Let Them Go
3. Prison of Empathy
4. For the Living

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